I believe there is complete equality between men and women.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.

Spirituality is the ability to say - It is OK, in every circumstance.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

When I see a woman who is all gaunt and emaciated, I don't think she's beautiful. She reminds me of a Chihuahua that's freezing and shaking.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.